tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post2872206278418975910..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Revealing The Atheists' Theology For What It Really Is An Alternative ReligionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-17992301305708049482015-05-25T12:48:35.625-04:002015-05-25T12:48:35.625-04:00I cam across a reference to Nietzsche in a book by...I cam across a reference to Nietzsche in a book by Caputo about Derrida (are we far enough away yet?), mentioning that (not quoting, though) the mad German saw atheism as the flip side of religious belief, because both deal in certainty.<br /><br />Interesting thing about my faith is how little certainty I have, and how comforting (however) that lack of certainty is. It's the defenders of tiny realms that weary me: the ones who insist "proof" of existence must be presented (though what that proof would be is never stated), and any contradiction is proof of failure, and any disagreement between believers is proof one of them is not a "true" believer, and so on and so on. Honestly, in the words of Jesus, they strain at gnats and swallow camels, and think themselves wise.<br /><br />Mostly they are afraid of their own ignorance, and so cling tenaciously to what little they know, afraid of learning anything else, lest it expand their world into the complexities of reality.<br /><br />So they snipe and snip at every little thing, determined to keep their world as small as possible. One never encounters argument, except in the Monty Python version (which was meant to be a joke....).Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com